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Definition of Coastguard
1. Noun. A military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters.
Generic synonyms: Armed Service, Military Service, Service
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Member holonyms: Coastguardsman
Definition of Coastguard
1. Noun. An enforcer of maritime law, in charge of policing the seas within territorial waters ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coastguard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coastguard
Literary usage of Coastguard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compendium of the Law of Merchant Shipping: With an Appendix, Containing by Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock (1881)
"... and whenever any of these event happens elsewhere and competent witnesses of
it arrive in the United Kingdom, the inspecting officer of the coastguard, ..."
2. How We are Governed: A Handbook of the Constitution, Government, Laws, and by Albany de Grenier Fonblanque (1889)
"... Medical, Engineering, and Paymaster Branches—Relative Army and Navy
Rank—coastguard—Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers— Royal Naval Reserve—Royal Marines. ..."
3. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1860)
"At present the coastguard service is a great attraction to seamen—men who have
served their ten years in the navy are eligible, and are very glad to get ..."
4. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1898)
"(1209) Ob. THE coastguard MESMERIZED (R. 4074), Practical Mesmerism applied to
dancing lessons (R. 1075), Relieving a gentleman from a state of coma (R. ..."
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